segunda-feira, 14 de março de 2016

Many people in the data science field use the parquet
format to store tabular data, as it's the default format used
by Apache Spark -- an efficient data storage format for
analytics. The problem is: the format is binary (you can't just open it with
your preferred code editor) and there's no such a good Python library to read
-- not until today!

domingo, 6 de março de 2016

I really like the dd-wrt router operating system: I can install it on
cheap routers (starting from 27 USD, as TP-Link
WR741ND) to have a great Web configuration interface
and performance (way better than general factory software).

I'm always looking for new router models to check if they're supported by
dd-wrt and to compare prices/hardware specs (as I'm always buying new
routers to help some friends with their Wi-Fi networks). The problem is:
dd-wrt's website usability is not that good, specially the router
database search. As I prefer to use my terminal instead of
the Web browser, I've created a command-line tool to deal with it: it's called
ddwrtdb and the code is available at my GitHub
account!